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Eric "Eazy-E" Wright
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frightened the media into labeling the group "gangsters". This was a label the
group wore and exploited with such force that by the time Eazy released his solo
project Eazy-Duz-It that fall, the stage of musical funk and lyrical fight had
long been set.
"Boyz-N-The-Hood" , "We Want Eazy", "Eazy-Duz-It". His voice fueled a
legion of hits. In the early `90's, he joined other West Coast rappers,
including M.C. Hammer, Ice T, Tone-Loc, and Young MC, in a stop the violence
campaign led by the single "We're All In The Same Gang". With N.W.A, Eazy broke
down all the doors of mass exposure previously closed to rap music.
Attempts to rock the young musician's fo ...
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Karl Marx
... comfortable. While attending the University of Bonin, After graduating from university; Marx moved to Bonn, hoping to later become a professor. However, the reactionary policy of the government made Marx abandon the idea of an academic career, but his dad made him transfer to the University of Berlin. The transfer was do to Marx earlier possession of alcohol and imprisonment for drunkenness.
At Berlin Marx interests changed from law to philosophy. "Degeneration in a learned dressing gown with uncombed hair had replaced degeneration with a beer glass." (1 p2) Marx father obviously disapproved greatly.
Marx attached to the philosophy of G.W.F Hegel. He referred ...
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Joseph Stalin
... the early
nineteen teens. With the help form Lenin, Stalin proposed an answer to the
National Question, which was self determination. Stalin's ruthlessness is
first discovered by Lenin, when Stalin is sent to Georgia to convince the
Georgia leader not to practice self determination. When the leader does
not agree with what Stalin has to say, Stalin punches the man out and
threaten to kill them all.
Years after that incident Lenin end up dying and Stalin takes over
as the leader of Russia. Because Trotsky was hated by many of the
influential political figures in Russia, Stalin becomes the leader of
Russia even after Lenin's dying last wishes.
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Who Was Adolf Hitler?
... when World War I broke out in August 1914.
Hitler enlisted in the German army and saw four years of front-line service during which he was wounded several times and decorated for bravery twice. He was gassed near the end of the war. During this time, he served as an intelligence agent for the military authorities, in the course of which he attended a meeting of the tiny German Workers Party in 1919. He later joined the party, became its leader and changed its name to the National Socialist German Workers Party, later called the Nazi Party. In 1920, the 25 Points of the Nazi Party were proclaimed, one of which called for the removal of the Jews from German society. ...
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Oskar Schindler - A Saint In Disguise?
... fifty third birthday did the municipality of Tel Aviv dedicate a plaque in the Park of Heroes describing him as savior of over 1200 Jews? Why was he declared a Righteous person in Jerusalem and invited to plant a carob tree in the Avenue of the Righteous? The answer is simple: To more than 1200 Jewish people held as prisoners in camps during World War II, Oskar Schindler and his factories are all that stood between them and death at the hands of the Nazis. Schindler's motives, even to this day, are not completely clear. As you learn about a man full of flaws just like the rest of us, I know that you too will appreciate the fact that an ordinary man can do extraordi ...
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Archimedes
... the value of pi between 3 10/71 and 3 1/7. Math wasn’t as sophisticated enough to find out the exact pi (3.14). was finding square roots and he found a method based on the Greek myriad for representing numbers as large as 1 followed by 80 million billion zeros.
One of accomplishments was his creation of the lever and pulley system. proved his theory of the lever and pulley to the king by moving a ship, of the royal fleet, back into the ocean. Then, moved the ship into the sea with only a few movements of his hand, which caused a lever and pulley device to move the ship. This story has become famous because said, "Give me a place to stand on and I will move ...
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Ray Bradbury
... He sold newspapers on Los Angeles street corners from 1938 to 1942. Bradbury's first story publication was "Hollerbochen's Dilemma," printed in 1938 in Imagination!, an amateur fan magazine. In 1939, Bradbury published four issues of Futuria Fantasia, his own fan magazine, contributing much of the published material himself. Bradbury's first paid publication was "Pendulum" in 1941 to Super Science Stories. In 1942 Bradbury wrote "The Lake," the story in which he discovered his distinctive writing style. By 1943 he had given up his job selling newspapers and began writing full-time, contributing numerous short stories to periodicals. In 1945 his short story " ...
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Martin Luther King Jr. 4
... realized that there were two alternatives in the struggle against “the forces of injustice” (Ansbro, 233): violence or nonviolence. He decided against violence for
obvious reasons. During this time in America, the African American community represented only ten percent of the total population. King felt that this made it impossible for African Americans who lack access to weapons to successfully wage a violent revolution against the white majority. Any attacks by the civil rights workers or their followers would surely result in counter attacks by
the segregationists, resulting in the injury and deaths of many of King’s followers. With these ...
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John Steinbeck
... While he was there for five he contributed to the school paper by writing poems and comics. He took courses in science and writing, but never received a degree. In 1925, when he left Stanford, he became a marine biologist. He moved to New York in 1925 to work as a reporter for a newspaper. Always being a non-conformist, he was fired from the newspaper for writing opinions instead of facts. This started the many jobs he would be a part of in his lifetime. Some of these jobs include an apprentice hod carrier, an apprentice printer, a working chemist, caretaker of Lake Tahoe Estate, surveyor in Big Sur County, and a fruit picker. He also worked other more physically l ...
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Descartes Sixth Meditation
... realise how our own appreciation of certain concepts may be very different from the objective character of the external world. Descartes takes a look at memory, imagination, hallucination, dreams, predictions, etc. which he calls our (sensory awareness) as these are part of the way we perceive the external world, he doubts at first that any of these internal experience holds any truth or existence. As he is very sceptical he raises the problem whether any of these given experiences contain truth or objectivity at all. Since we never have the chance to stand outside our own perception, it is impossible to contrast it with the external world.
Descartes is hopeful ...
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